MB Web Design will shortly be launching MyDesignerWebsite, a new service that will allow small businesses to design and launch their website within only a few days for a small annual fee.

The website will launch with 5 templates to choose from, with more added each month. At the time of ordering you will be able to customise the template to suit their needs – text font typefaces, header font typefaces, all text colours and background colours can be chosen from a set palette, or you can choose your own!

Once you’ve chosen your website package – which start from as little as £6.25 per month – we will contact you to establish the content you require on the website, and you can email us photos to use. In as little as 7 days your website will be put online for all to see.

Standard websites

	Micro	Simple	Extra	Premium	Pro	Deluxe
One low cost annual payment of	£74.99	£99.99	£149.99	£199.99	£274.99	£374.99
The basics
Number of pages	1	1	3	5	10	20
Website setup
Inclusion of your company logo
Website hosting
Domain name registration
Upgrades, backups
Complimentary annual website upgrade
Quarterly website backups
Support
Support – access to FAQ
Support – email
Support – phone
Email
Unlimited email forwarders
POP3 email accounts		1	3	5	10	20
Style
Choose your template
Customise the design
Number of template changes permitted per year					1	2
SEO & Web Traffic
Submission of your completed website to Google and Yahoo
Analytics – study your website traffic
Addition of your business to Google Maps
Website content
Supply your own information
Add icons (professional memberships, trade associations, etc)
Add photos – 1 per page
Option to change your featured image to a mini slideshow of up to 5 images
Flexibility
Changes permitted per year (e.g. changing page text such as your address, editing your opening hours, etc)		2	3	4	6	8
Facility for you to edit your existing pages
Complete content management – add / edit / remove an unlimited number of pages
	Micro	Simple	Extra	Premium	Pro	Deluxe
One low cost annual payment of	£74.99	£99.99	£149.99	£174.99	£249.99	£374.99

Extras

E-Commerce Websites

	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum
One low cost annual payment of	£295.00	£495.00	£750.00	£995.00
About your e-commerce store
Number of products	20	50	100	Unlimited
Number of user accounts (for you and staff to manage your store)	1	5	10	Unlimited
Downloadable instruction manual
Product tagging
Option to sell digital downloads
Option to submit your products to Google Base and other product search engines
Secure SSL option
Payment methods
Paypal
Google Checkout
Chronopay
Bluepay
Protx
The basics
Number of informational pages	5	5	10	20
Website setup
Inclusion of your company logo
Website hosting
Domain name registration
Upgrades, backups
Complimentary annual website upgrade
Quarterly website backups
Monthly website backups
Support
Support – access to FAQ
Support – email
Support – phone
Email
Unlimited email forwarders
POP3 email accounts	1	5	10	20
Style
Choose your template
Customise the design
Number of template changes permitted per year				1
SEO & Web Traffic
Submission of your completed website to Google and Yahoo
Analytics – study your website traffic
Addition of your business to Google Maps
Website content
Supply your own information
Add icons (professional memberships, trade associations, etc)
Add photos – 1 per page
Option to change your featured image to a mini slideshow of up to 5 images
Flexibility
Changes permitted per year (e.g. changing page text such as your address, editing your opening hours, etc)	3	4	6	8
Facility for you to edit your existing pages
Complete content management – add / edit / remove an unlimited number of pages
	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum
One low cost annual payment of	£295.00	£495.00	£750.00	£995.00

What Is Not (Yet) Included?

• Bespoke / one-off designs
• Online booking of events

These features are only available in bespoke, tailored website quotations. To enquire about such a website, please contact Mathew at MB Web Design.

1. Where is the sidebar?

In the global website template, the order of page elements was: head, sidebar, content, footer. Content and sidebar were divs floated to the left and right respectively, but in terms of a search engine spider, the sidebar’s contents (in this site’s case – the basket) preceded the main content, and therefore considered more important. One simple reversal has no effect on design to the end user but changes the complexion of a search engine’s interpretation completely.

2. Strip unnecessary javascript

Every little helps – if your site is referencing javascript that isn’t used, get rid of it. though the few lines of code you save have a negligible effect on SEO, you could be saving valuable seconds in load time. You can always put it back in if that lightbox or scriptaculous effect is absolutely necessary.

3. WYSIWYG code bloat

Cubecart’s page editor is quite guilty of embedding superfluous <span> tags for page styling. Particularly on front page and category pages in an e-commerce site, code bloat like this ought to be stripped.

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The moral of this story is: Google really likes blog posts.

RDM Properties is a Llanelli builder and Swansea builder. Unfortunately it is not the most stable industry to be in at the moment! Though the business has been buoyant in past years, the owner is convinced it would be prudent to get a web presence at the top of Google’s search results for builders in his area.

The second website is for Simply Maternal, who are experiencing an unusually long delay is seeing their website listed by Google.

This is where this blog post comes in – I want to investigate how much value Google places in my website by linking to these sites and monitoring what effect it has on search rankings. I’ll report back with the results in a few weeks.